Not that long ago, someone posted an IOTD about an engine that made a scene
look hand-drawn... When I saw that, I just slapped myself on the forehead
and realized I never posted a screenshot of the 3rd version of aEmber to
IOTD... D'oh!!!

Anyway, for those of you who are unaware, this is a product of UIUC
SIGGraph which paints a 3d model to the screen in realtime. The screen you
are seeing was running at 1.7 FPS on a P-200 with no 3d hardware, and in
fact... an ISA video card *gasp*. Bear in mind that at SIGGraph conference
2000, we were given Nvidia Quadro's, so the models are tesselated to an
extent that reflects that.

This is an entirely different method from our previous versions. This one
is dependent on the projected coordinates of the triangles and an offscreen
GL render of the scene. We tesselate the 2d triangles and sample from the
image at the resulting pixels (jittered of course). Then paintstrokes are
rendered as textured tris to the window with said color and location.

The artist who creates the model has the control over

specific paintbrush for a given model (you can get vertex-specific
actually)

Direction and curvature of the brushstrokes

size, skewing, and other features of brushstrokes

background image (if any)

depth of tesselation for each object

degree of jittering for tesselation and color

morph response (brushstrokes changing randomly or to sound input)

What you see here is the result of 1 guy locked in his hotel room coding by
the seat of his pants at the very last minutes before presenting the App to
SIGGRAPH... Oh, well... it was fun and the project really reached the final
goal, so here's the pretty part... behold the coolness of fruit.